Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance Company Act 1842
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1842 c. lxvii |
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CAP.
LXVII.
An Act for the better regulating the Number of
leral Prison at
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Perth admitted to the Ge
[30th July 1842.]
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HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament
Majesty Reign
and Prison Discipline in Scotland, Provision is made for the erecting
of a General Prison at Perth, and other Prisons, to be so constructed,
fitted
up,
and regulated as to afford the best Means for training the
Prisoners therein confined in good and industrious Habits, by effecting
their complete Separation from vicious Society, and by affording them
religious and moral Instruction, and employing them in useful Labour:
and Provision is also made for the Appointment of a General Board
of Directors of Prisons in Scotland, and local Boards to carry into
effect the Purposes of the said Act: And whereas it is by the said Act
enacted, " that after the said General Prison shall be declared by the
said General Board to be ready to receive Prisoners, it shall be lawful
for the said General Board to cause all Prisoners sentenced to Impri-
sonment, the Expiry of whose Sentences shall not occur for a Period
of not less thau Six Months, to be conveyedto the said General Prison,
and when any Criminal Court shall, after such Declaration, sentence
9 P any
2
8c
3 Vict.
c.42.
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